Using shell redirection to truncate rather than additional commands/forks/files, thanks to Justin Pryzby <jpryzby@quoininc.com>.

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/functions/aliases.sh b/functions/aliases.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# aliases.sh - internal shell aliases
+# Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
+#
+# live-helper comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see COPYING.
+# This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
+# under certain conditions; see COPYING for details.
+
+set -e
+
+Truncate ()
+{
+	for FILE in ${@}
+	do
+		: > ${FILE}
+	done
+}